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Elizabeth Poreba
Elizabeth Poreba taught English in New York City high schools for thirty-five years and now volunteers as a docent at the Old Merchant's House in Manhattan, a tutor of conversational English at New York University, and a foot soldier for the Sierra Club. She has published a chapbook, The Family Calling (2011). Her poems have appeared in Ducts.org, First Literary Review East and Commonweal, among other print and online publications.
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Elizabeth Poreba
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Copyright © 2015 Elizabeth Poreba. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.
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Village Church,
One-Sided Dialogue Concerning the Soul
and Jonah
appeared previously in Commonweal.
The Career of That Enigmatic Man
appeared in Spiritofstbarts (online)
Iris
and St. Kateri
appeared in First Literary Review East (online)
Scriptural passages from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV
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Cover Image: John Mann, Untitled, from Drift, 2013
Members of the O’Clock Poets—Maura Candela, Guillermo Castro, John Couturier, Ron Drummond, Katie Johntz, Amy Lemmon, Katrinka Moore, Martie Palar, Joan Poole, Sarah Stern—read and pondered most of these poems with me, and I can never thank them enough.
for all the saints, known and unknown
Off Balance
Vexed
Why not speak of it
made of rays
A large presence
that does not press upon us
Why not people the blue
populate the waste space
Set the table
arrange the cup and plate
Mark the calendar
to the end of time
Smooth back
the title page
Address this vexed